Toward a new historicism.

Summary:

"Assessing major critics from Vernon Parrington to Murray Krieger, Wesley Morris points the way to a "new historicism." He outlines traditional historicist interests in American literary theory and draws from them the foundation for a vital new study of literature. As Mr. Morris shows, however, the new historicism moves beyond--necessarily using the most recent developments in linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, the psychology of perception and literary response--to see the aesthetic relationship between the work and its context"--Amazon.com.

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Record details

ISBN: 0691061556
ISBN: 9780691061559
Physical Description: xii, 265 pages. ; 23 cm
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1972.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255).

Formatted Contents Note:

Toward a discrimination of historicisms -- Literary history and literary criticism: literature's dual mode of existence -- pt. 1. The American historicist tradition: Vernon Louis Parrington: an argument for historicism -- American Marxian literary theory: the search for critical certainty -- The creative mind and literary prophecy: the critical heritage of Van Wyck Brooks -- pt. 2. The rediscovery of historicism: John Crowe Ransom: principles of a new historicism -- The meeting of opposites -- Roy harvey Pearce: the revitalizing of historicism -- The meeting of opposites -- Murray Krieger: the ambition of a new historicism -- Toward a new historicism.